Why is parking so expensive?

[Mouseboy11]

Anyone really know? I assume it's to try and discourage people taking cars to the festival. It's supposedly £35 on the gate this year! Looking around that's compared to £10 at Reading and £20 at Download!

Edit: If I order now are they likely to turn up? I've heard many people complain on here they haven't and my brother is yet to receive his that he ordered with his tickets.

Edited June 12, 2015 by Mouseboy11

[Tigerdragon]

Supply and demand.

[fatyeti24]

ostensibly to discourage car travel, as you say. though it'd be interesting to know how many fewer cars go as opposed to, say 2008 when it cost about a fiver, versus the extra income generated between now and then.

[Slugworth]

I got mine for £25 when i purchased my ticket. I'm happy paying £5 a day to park my car.

[eFestivals]

Anyone really know? I assume it's to try and discourage people taking cars to the festival. It's supposedly £35 on the gate this year! Looking around that's compared to £10 at Reading and £20 at Download!

Edit: If I order now are they likely to turn up? I've heard many people complain on here they haven't and my brother is yet to receive his that he ordered with his tickets.

Yep, it is about discouraging people to come in cars - both for the festival's carbon footprint, and for the chaos it causes in the local area.

Other larger festival sites such as Reading, V Chelmsford, and others are well served by major roads, sometime right to the gate.

Whereas Pilton is 15 miles or so from any sizeable dual carriageways or better every direction - and is also twice the size of Reading Festival.

If they can get the traffic levels down they might manage to get the numbers increased, just perhaps.

[windy_miller]

It would be interesting to see if the car numbers have fallen over the last few years or not. I suspect not.

[phil the shrew]

Discouraging people to come by car is certainly a factor in the licence the festival gets from the Council

Last year on the Sunday I got speaking to some locals in on the day tickets and they said a lot of the fields used for parking aren't owned by the festival and the Eavis family. They therefore charge a high fee for using their land for the festival - some suggestion local landowners make more from that than they do from farming

[whisty]

Discouraging people to come by car is certainly a factor in the licence the festival gets from the Council

Last year on the Sunday I got speaking to some locals in on the day tickets and they said a lot of the fields used for parking aren't owned by the festival and the Eavis family. They therefore charge a high fee for using their land for the festival - some suggestion local landowners make more from that than they do from farming

It's all about money in my opinion. How Many cars, 15-20-30,000, think about it.

[Wanderlei]

Anyone really know? I assume it's to try and discourage people taking cars to the festival. It's supposedly £35 on the gate this year! Looking around that's compared to £10 at Reading and £20 at Download!

Edit: If I order now are they likely to turn up? I've heard many people complain on here they haven't and my brother is yet to receive his that he ordered with his tickets.

Well, it discourages poor people to come by car. They might as well put a "rich people only" banner up on the car park entrance.

[A Guy Called Matt]

Parking in Bristol car parks is around £5 an hour in places.

£5 a day at GF is not expensive.

[Migraine]

Am I out of touch I had never considered the charge anything other than fair?

[pie_and_a_pint]

Come to Oxford and try to park your car for 5 days without remortgaging the house.

£5 a day is a bloody bargain.

[___S_o_m_a__]

Anyone really know? I assume it's to try and discourage people taking cars to the festival. It's supposedly £35 on the gate this year! Looking around that's compared to £10 at Reading and £20 at Download!

Edit: If I order now are they likely to turn up? I've heard many people complain on here they haven't and my brother is yet to receive his that he ordered with his tickets.

It's expensive because an awful lot of people will travel to the festival using their car and so therefore GFL know they can sell the tickets to the car parks for pretty much whatever they want.

£35 on the gate yes but, to be fair, it's £25 in advance. Next year it may be £25 but it won't be long until it's £30 and then £35 in advance and you can bet the rises won't be in line with inflation.

[___S_o_m_a__]

Come to Oxford and try to park your car for 5 days without remortgaging the house.

£5 a day is a bloody bargain.

If you'd paid £215 to enter Oxford city limits and were then charged £5 a day to park...

[___S_o_m_a__]

Am I out of touch I had never considered the charge anything other than fair?

Maybe not but you definitely sound like a politician x

[Migraine]

Maybe not but you definitely sound like a politician x

I'm off to hang my head in shame

[Curlygirl]

I think the car parking fee is reasonable. But also, the cash goes to the neighbouring farm owners to keep them happy. It wouldn't be good if they objected to the festival. And where would we park if they didn't rent their land out? Be a heck more expensive then I guess?

[Glastonlocal]

None of the parking land is part of Worthy Farm - it has to be leased from other farms. Prices renegotiated every few years: costs go up. Parking costs also subsidise the costs associated with the extra train service and the free shuttle buses.

[Gnomicide]

If you'd paid £215 to enter Oxford city limits and were then charged £5 a day to park...

If every Oxford club, gig, cinema, theatre, comedy club was free of charge and I could take in my own drink...

[lukemack1]

I'd say it was cheap tbf, a very fair price to park your car for 5/6 days.

I'd pay it just to be drooped at the gate and not have to get the shuttle bus.

[___S_o_m_a__]

If every Oxford club, gig, cinema, theatre, comedy club was free of charge and I could take in my own drink...

Free of charge once you'd paid to get in :-P

[brendan84]

Is it deffo £35? It's 32.50 on see tickets for a pass with a booking transaction fees

[Leggins]

Can it be classed as expensive? If there are say 3 of you to a car (with kit etc) then it works out at about £1.66 per person per day on a £25 ticket. Come on.

[Northern-Monkey]

Last time I was in Dublin it was over €5 an hour to park, London £35 for 4 hours plus congestion charge, Manchester overnight £16 in an NCP book in advance - £25 for 5 nights is cheap!

[Northern-Monkey]

Is it deffo £35? It's 32.50 on see tickets for a pass with a booking transaction fees

£25, if booked with your entrance tickets.

The extra tenner for paying on the day is B/S tho!